It is one thing to wish that everyone was happy and that poverty was eradicated like many dreaded diseases have been that used to plague mankind. But, how can a sane person believe that by eliminating poverty, those same ex-poor can be forced to feel happiness? Is there justice in forcing people, who work harder and better or are more intelligent than others and hence have better capacity for higher paying jobs, to pay more taxes so their wealth can be distributed to those who are less fortunate. Here's a saying from my grandma, (bad translation from the original dialect:) "If all five fingers on our hand were of equal length, we would not have a firm grip."
I read this article and it makes me wonder how grown men like Sunstein, Holdren and Obama himself, men who are so highly educated in the best of learning institutions on earth, can still be so full of dreams of the wrong kind. An Utopian complex is forgiveable in the very young and inexperienced but to encounter such delusions in people who are supposed to be the intellectual stalwarts in the new administration of the greatest country on earth ? I don't get it..... I don't get it at all.
2009, the year that Levi Johnston became a celebrity... ;)
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"But, how can a sane person believe that by eliminating poverty, those same ex-poor can be forced to feel happiness? Is there justice in forcing people, who work harder and better or are more intelligent than others and hence have better capacity for higher paying jobs, to pay more taxes so their wealth can be distributed to those who are less fortunate."
ReplyDeleteIn the first place, people with the higher educations and higher salaries don't necessarily work harder than those with little education working as day labourers. In fact, the opposite happens more often than not.
The doctors, CEOs, bankers, lawyers, politicians, scientists all need assistants of some kind, secretaries, general labourers, etc in order to do their jobs. Without them, they'd be lost.
In everyone's life, we need the waitress who serves our coffee, the person who work their fingers to the bone in sweatshops so we can have clothes to wear, farmers to produce our food so we don't starve, someone to pick up the garbage once or twice a week or clear snow after a snow storm, etc. Where would we be without them?
As it is, the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. It should be the exact opposite.
I love this exchange between Robin Williams and Letterman.
ReplyDelete"I love that they thought Katie Couric was ambush journalism with ambush questions like what do you read?
That's a trick question!
Not if you read, no it's not really..."
Iceman - who IS levi johnston? You seem to know and like a lot of insignificant muck hugging insects... so I am presuming this person or thing is one like your Rudy somebody.
ReplyDeleteLevi Johnston is just the kid who impregnated Bristol Palin.
ReplyDeleteHe has done a few interviews and from what I understand, he got a contract for Playgirl or something like that.
I predict he will more than likely get a book deal and perhaps even one of those made for TV movies of the week deals about his life or about the time he dated Bristol or something along those lines.
Nope, he has absolutely nothing to do with Rudy.